Daily
Reflections reading May 10th
Free At Last
Another
great dividend we may expect from confiding our defects to another human being
is humility – a word often misunderstood. . . . it amounts to a clear recognition
of what and who we really are, followed by a sincere attempt to become what we
could be. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 58
I
knew deep inside that if I were ever to be joyous, happy and free, I had to
share my past life with some other individual. The joy and relief I experienced
after doing so were beyond description. Almost immediately after taking the
Fifth Step, I felt free from the bondage of self and the bondage of alcohol.
That freedom remains after 36 years, a day at a time. I found that God could do
for me what I couldn’t do for myself
©
Alcoholics Anonymous World Services
My
thoughts on May 10th Reading
How does it feel to be sober and free at
last, well its like asking me how does it feel to be alive and able to function
as a human being with out the use of alcohol, or any other substitute dulling
my senses, leaving me with out any feelings about anyone or anything in my
little world
Until AA I do not think I had any freedom
from myself no real feeling about how to live and work today I have the freedom
to choose how I want to live and have a choice every morning I accepted my
disease and was willing to go to any lengths to stay sober
I stay sober thru Gods gifts that are
endless as long as my mind is open to Him and His gifts, just being at meetings
is one of His many gifts to me having friends in the program who know me and
had accepted me for who I was when I came into the halls of AA
I am no longer a victim of myself I have
the love and respect of my family, I even have real friends today not fair
weather people conning each other, when the times were rough my old friends
dropped me like hot potatoes when I was not the victim, I was the one to
victimize you
Until AA I do not think I had any freedom
the promise of a new freedom and happiness and not regret the past come true,
God gave me the gift of choice to choose how I want to live today, I have that
choice every morning when I was willing to accepted my disease
Another Gift form god the willingness to
go to any lengths to stay sober and to change myself and accept my part in my
disease, as well as my part in recovery, I did need to clean up the wreckage of
my past had a big street to clean up
No more blaming others for what I did or
allowed others to do to me, I have Gods gift to accept my life as it should
have always been turning my will over to His care gave me the freedom to become
the person I now am free from the clutches of alcohol
Free to enjoy life and not take life to
seriously, to enjoy the time I have left, to do His will for me, and to
practice these steps in all my affairs, thank God for freedom of bondage of
myself give freely and you shall receive Gods gift of freedom
God bless you Al M
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